2.5% ▼ -55.2%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Midway Point · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Midway Point
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the primary way to get around Midway Point, with 71.5% of workers commuting by car. Most households rely heavily on their own transport, which is reflected in a very low rate of vehicle-free homes compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.5% of homes here have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the Tasmanian average of 6.1%. This reliance on cars is clear, with over 40% of households owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Midway Point, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (35%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 7.1% of people work from home, this is far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use for work is very low at 1.1%, which is a little below the state and national averages.
7.1% ▲ +88.3%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▲ +33.9%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Midway Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615015/midway-point/topic/transport